Wordbank, my lab's open database of children's vocabulary development, has a new home. There's a new website, a new data release, and wordbankr is back on CRAN. A few details 🧵 wordbank.stanford.edu/

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Simple mistakes in LLM reasoning might suggest that models are *pattern matching*, not reasoning. But what if people are doing the same thing? In my preprint with @glupyan, we find that LLMs are highly aligned with people *because* they are pattern matching! A thread🧵(1/15):

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aww, thanks @natvelali.bsky.social !

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Can you see a monkey face in the middle image? Normally, when you turn a face upside down, it’s still a face. But rotating a visual anagram like this can change what it appears to depict. We asked how 🐒🧠 represents these transformation-dependent changes. (1/n)

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Lately out in Psychonomic Bulletin Review from Anne Marie Crinnion @jimmagnuson.bsky.social and me, an exploration of how listeners differ in their use of bottom-up (acoustic) and top-down (lexical-semantic) information. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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